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Mystery of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Immune System Illnesses Unraveled
Where modern medicine has failed, the patient can succeed.
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January 2001 - When strange new maladies, jokingly called "yuppie flu," began to appear in the 1980s, the medical world denied their reality. Sporadic research failed to find a causative microbe, and so patients who developed chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and environmental illness were dismissed as psychiatric cases. The symptoms were "all in their minds." Twenty years later, this arrogant view is still held by many influential medical experts.
How did medicine come to the point where official dogma carried more weight than the actual experience of patients? How could the patients, unable to prove that they were sick, and faced with rejection by doctor after doctor, find a way back to health?
Author Judith Lopez answers these questions in a new book, Immune Dysfunction: Winning My Battle Against Toxins, Illness & the Medical Establishment. The book describes Lopez's life-or-death struggle with the disease, the doctors, and their institutionalized disbelief in anything outside their limited experience. It explores the reasons that medicine took a wrong turn and blinded itself to the very real effects of everyday toxins on the immune system. And it provides readers with the knowledge and the tools crucial to recovering from this disabling disease.
Vincent A. Marinkovich, M.D., clinical associate professor, Stanford Medical School, calls Lopez "a gifted writer" and her book "a compelling read."
William G. Crook, M.D., author of The Yeast Infection Handbook and Tired So Tired, says of Immune Dysfunction, "As riveting as a novel that you can't put down . . . Comprehensive and authoritative."
Immune Dysfunction (ISBN 0-9701270-4-9) is available on www.bookzone.com, where you can read more about it, or directly from the publisher.
Judith Lopez
Millpond Press
415-388-2730
millpondpress@aol.com
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